The USC Institute for Global Health aims to improve global health by educating future and current global health leaders, carrying out trans-disciplinary research, and assuring that the evidence collected informs policy and practice to make a difference.

Named one of the 100 most influential Australians by The Bulletin in 2006, Professor Dennis Altman is an author and academic who teaches politics at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. He has written thirteen books, exploring sexuality, politics and their inter-relationship in Australia, the United States and now globally. His book, Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation, was one of the first serious analyses to emerge from the gay liberation movement, and has been published in eight countries since 1972, with a readership which continues today. From 2001 to 2005, Altman served as President of the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific and has since been invited to lecture on AIDS and sexuality in countries across the world. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2008.

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Q&A

Learn about Dennis Altman’s background writing about the AIDS epidemic and working in sexual rights, as well as about his thoughts on the impact of American democracy on the rest of the world.

USC Law & Global Health Collaboration

Sponsored by the USC Provost’s Office Research Collaboration Fund, the USC Law & Global Health Collaboration advances scholarship and provides monthly lectures and public discussions at the intersection of law and global health. Professor Sofia Gruskin, director of the Institute for Global Health, leads this collaboration alongside USC Gould Professor of Law and Medicine Alexander Capron and USC Research Professor and Associate Dean of Research Charles Kaplan from the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.